down 13% points this year, 42%, that is tieing his all time low in this poll. one driving force behind the decline is of course obama care. 63% disapprove of how he handled the rollout and 57% oppose the entire law. that is up 8 points in just four weeks. but more people enrolling on healthcare.gov. october's numbers are already doubled this month but they are still far off their goal of 3 million enrolled by the end of year. a political writer says democrats can't -- obama care bears the president's name but it's a democratic party creation full stop. if democrats help republicans obliterate it it will be an enormous admission of governing incompetence. if i'm accurately representing your argument, you're basically saying democrats are stuck with obama care, they may as well embrace it.

they are not going to be inflated by things by voting for the upton bill and other full repeal for that matter, which is a sentiment i agree with. but i looked at some research into democrats who voted for and those who voted against the health care law originally back in 2009, and those who voted against health reform did have some inflation or more likely to win re-election. so is it a reasonable argument to think that by distancing themselves, some vulnerable democrats may actually benefit from things like folks for the upton bill? >> i think taking a free vote on upton, what it was for the 39 democrats, it's not going to go anywhere. the research you cite is pretty well established. george washington university has done similar research. we're at a different place than we were in 2010. there's a status quo by us and back in 2010 democrats were

disrupting the status quo and now it's obama care. to keep to the message democrats are running with and governing on, it vote for sound policiwise and better politics than what republicans are say, which is repeal, which is going to be much more disruptive than working through this obama care launch. >> we have a new -- vance mcallister, a deep south districted that overwhelmingly for him despite what we might call moderate position anti-obama care. he's going to join the repeal caucus, but he's in favor of expanding medicaid, which makes him a moderate within -- on that side of the aisle. making a meal out of one data point, like eating chocolate cake for breakfast which i don't understand because i do that all the time. >> sounds great. >> what does that say to you, if anything?

>> it says something about the particulars of his constituency that he's got a large constituency of people who could benefit from the medicaid expansion. >> and as loi the republicans do. >> especially in the deep south, texas, who have people who can benefit and they are fighting against expanding. >> yeah and i think as the rollout continues particularly if it i mproves that that tensin is going to get more severe. you'll see it from statewide already elected republicans. the kentucky exchanges perhaps the best functioning exchange in the whole country and mitch mcconnell is in cycle, leader of the party and supports full repeal of obama care. will that be the case come january, february march if you have few hundred,000 new enroll ees and people benefitting from medicaid in kentucky, will he run on a get rid of the whole law platform?

>> agree with your these sis of your reporting, the politics of this are not as seismic as some early accounts would suggest. a reminder when senator clinton was faced with affirmative action, mend it, don't it. you know it's a good policy if it rhymes. >> go ahead. >> i would add another thing, sort of a corps larry to what you said, the vote in 2010 did hurt a lot of democrats to research krystal pointed to backed that up. we don't know what would have happened back in 2010 democrats had been cowed into backing off and torpedoing the whole month of effort they put into drafting the bill. it didn't go so well for democrats back in 1994 when bill clinton's effort to reform the health care system failed. i think the outcome might have been just as bad or worse if they had just given up after

scott brown won in massachusetts. >> as everyone can see, we're moments from the president speaking at the wall street journal ceo council. chris christie spoke there yesterday and took a few moments to stand up for the president, suggesting that all of this speculation around 2016 is causing more unnecessary pain for the president. this is what he said. the president just won a year ago and everybody is talking about who's next. there's work to be done in this country. actually, let's take a listen. >> he just won a year ago and everybody is like, so, who's next? there is work to be done in this country. and as we shove him out the door, we minimize his ability to be an effective executive and we shouldn't do that. >> always more interesting when you hear it from chris christie. i think he makes an interesting point. we're all guilty of speculating about 2016 controlling the narrative folk getting about the issues today. do you think it impacted the narrative around president o bam am and sinking poll numbers?

>> i think it will be more true -- what's happening right now is that the health care rollout is the key thing happening in governance. it's a mess. if it gets better, then obama's popularity will rebound, his influence over democrats on the hill will be restored and then it will be more of a lame duck come 2016. if this continues to fail, if the rollout never really improves and we're in healthcare.gov doesn't work through midterms, i can imagine democrats kind of turning their eyes to whoever the successor might be in hoping they can lead them out of the mess. it's -- christie is right that this doesn't really help obama government. what's driving his inability to govern right now is the health care rollout and that's the primary thing. but it's interesting to hear christie acknowledge that the things that both the media and politicians do, whether it's sort of monday morning

quarterbacking or legislative efforts they undertake to block the president, that they can really affect the outcomes for people and even obama might get blamed for those, it's really outside forces contributing a great deal. >> i mean, outside forces of all sorts, there's sort of republican noise machine making it hard to understand what is actually happening. they are sort of driving the narrative right now making people think about several million who have been canceled and will be canceled. but there's a far greater number of folks who were uninsured before who will be available to get insurance once this entry way into the website is cleared up. >> i think within the health care law, there's another aspect, which is that the republican governors who declined the medicaid expansion, what they did inadvertently or maybe it wasn't inadvertent, is that you have a coverage gap for people who are too poor to qualify for subsidies but aren't

being enveloped in the medicaid expansion. because you don't have children or whatever, then your options are to remain uninsured and buy insurance in the exchanges at full cost which you can't do. you're talking about 5 million people who aren't going to get covered simply because republican governors and legislators decided supreme court gave us this out. we're going to deny president obama that sliver of his legacy and the result is 5 million people suffering and also the president not getting as much credit for expanding coverage in the country as he would have if they had done the right thing about their constituents. >> i wonder if republicans are creating somewhat of a longer term problem for themselves, not that they don't already have longer term problems, but the longer they are able to focus on obama care and the president, the longer they are able to put off a real agenda on things like immigration reform, their own health care plan maybe, plans to address the economy. it feels good this is an issue they are all united around, the

repeal of obama care which is never going to happen. but doesn't it put off tough questions that they are ultimately going to have to answer about themselves and their party if they become a real governing coalition again? >> they'll be amazed how quickly that vulnerability springs back in their faces if healthcare.gov starts to work and enrollment picks up and the rollout -- the turbulence in the rollout sub sides. because at that point they are going to have spent a month and a half talking about how this law that is actually now working was a disaster, needs to be repealed even though it's now insuring millions of people. and then the attention of the the electorate will return to the fact on a whole host of other issues republicans aren't willing to do anything and have any answers. john boehner is sitting on immigration reform bill and employee nondiscrimination act and unresolved issues around the voting rights act and equal pay

for women, that are ultimately going to be in house weaprepubls hands. and the result -- if the health care site starts to work again and this is why it's so imperative for democrats to get that fixed, is that it will refocus the 2014 campaign around the issues that sort of unite democrats and the reason that the 2008 and 2012 coalitions were so vibrant. it will be interesting to see if republicans sitting on their hands on these issues would energize the democratic base in a midterm the way it did in the general election. >> i think you're right about that. immigration reform in particular is a big problem for the republican. thank you so much for your insight. >> thank you for having me. >> a little q and a with the president is coming up here live on "the cycle." it would only be better if we get to do the questioning. (announcer) scottrade knows our clients trade

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there 23 dead and 150 injured with a crater of wreckage and lebanon's prime minister denounced the bombing as a cowardly terrorist attack. an al qaeda linked group claimed responsibility and threatened further attacks unless iran withdraws forces in syria. a startling international development in a syrian civil war that caused more than 100,000 lives. this comes as secretary of state

john kerry pushed back a trip to israel where he was supposed to discuss a potential interim nuclear weapons deal with iran. after netanyahu levied harsh criticism of any deal, he decided to delay until after thanksgiving. bringing in former ambassador to morocco, mark ginberg. >> we know in lebanon they have 800,000 refugees from syria. this has turned into a regional conflict, hasn't it. >> this is texact spillover effect. millions of refugees in turkey, over 6 million and they are trickling into lebanon as a result of the offenses launched by rebels or syrian government. what's taking place in lebanon is symptom mattic.

the direct reason there was this attack on the iranian embassy is retaliation by the more sunni radical islamist al qaeda linked terrorists who oppose hezbollah's role in syria. and so that's -- there was an actual statement issued by one of the ready cal al qaeda linked groupz claiming responsibility for the attack. >> and speaking of syria, if the u.s. does lighten sanctions on iran, what impact will this have, this relationship on the syrian civil war, given the fact that iran still backs the assad government and hezbollah? >> this is one of the great hopes of the secretary of state, if he reaches an interim agreement in geneva, the so-called second round supposed to take place starting tomorrow, that this would have a comparable effect on regional security issues that would lead the united states and iran to

reach some sort of accommodation on a more inclusive syrian peace conference that the secretary is trying to cobble together. when anyone opposes the iran nuclear deal, the first thing that its supporters do is say, look, we have major strategic interest with iran that go far beyond its nuclear program. >> you're saying we're about to have a deal with iran, we've been trying to get this for years if not decades, that we're close. what is the framework for that deal you're referring to? >> i don't know. the devil will be in the details. on november 10th, there was a failed round, ill preparation, french stepping in, the iranians objecting to some of the required verification nemechanis and now they had ten more days to try to fashion, cobble together another interim accord for six months. look, i've wrote a piece yesterday about what should be in this deal to make it a

reasonable deal for the united states and for the congress. and the israelis of course -- and i completely understand as you know that the israelis consider any interim agreement to be inconsistent with its objectives, but i'm in favor of a reasonable interim deal if we can stand on it, look straight in the face of the american people and say it is good for the home team. not nearly good for the ayatolla. >> and people watching in the u.s. generally have some broad agreement we want to con strain iran. your article was somewhat skeptical and you talked about the idea for this to be successful, any uranium enriched up to 20% should be out of the country. explain why you think that's so important. >> it's important. i'm not going to convert everybody watching it to nuclear scientists but they should understand that a civilian nuclear program doesn't have to enrich uranium to be above a 3.5% threshold. the iranians have already enriched uranium to -- they have

at least 5 to 7 kilograms enough to make 5 to 7 bombs of 20% enriched uranium. the difference between bomb making uranium, 90% and 20% is the not the numerical difference. once you reach 20 you can accelerate the centrifuges and reach 90% in less than a few weeks. that's why 20% is such a dangerous amount of uranium for the iranians to have if they claim, which they consistently claim they only have a civilian program. >> i want to see if i can get you to do diplomatic inside baseball. we were close to a deal a little while ago then the french diplomatic team said we're not down with the deal because it's too easy on the iranians. and there's some interesting monday morning quarterbacking on that by an iranian expert who claimed the french's motivation,

they are angry at us for not bombing syria when they thought we were going to do that and also the french like to be french and tack left when the world goes right. what's your mindset on why the french made that decision? i respect barbara but she's been playing in the iranian sand box for too long. she's missing the point here. it has less to do with syria and the french disagreement with the united states. it has to do with two major components that they claim were missing in a deal that secretary kerry and the team were trying to cook up. there's a plutonium reactor by the name of e rack that they have not had access to which could when it becomes operationalized produce plutonium. that's a no-no. iranians refused to let the iaea inspectors in there for a full inspection and the french insist it's important for them to do

that. and why wouldn't you agree with the french because that makes sense to me. number two, the iranians insist they have a right, a right under the nonproliferation treaty to enrich uranium. there's no such right. and the french are concerned if there's an inference by iranians they have that right, then they will continue to try to enrich above the threshold despite the verifications required under this deal. i completely understand the french objections and i completely disagree with barbara slaven's assessment. >> and barbara's view that the french are the new republic -- >> one thing i want you to understand, they tried to negotiate a deal with iranians for two and a half years so they are the canary in the coal mine. they had the painful understanding of what the iranians will do to try to on citi sta kate. >> you have not made me into a

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we are just moments away from the president taking the stage at the wall street journal ceo council annual meeting following his remarks he'll have a question and answer session where he will undoubtedly be asked about the troubled obama care rollout. this is the last shot for the president to get things right before the midterm election.

they say he needs to show a state of the union that shows he's up to the job of leader. we have ir stole, future of capitalism.com and author of jfk conservative which is out now. it's interesting the president chose a more conservative outlet to speak today. who do you think he's trying to reach and is there anything he can say to regain the public's trust? >> there are a bunch of ceo and a lot benefitting from his commerce department and some may even like obama care because it's help them control their health care costs. but i think he'll try to change the subject a little bit and talk about how the stock market is at new highs, exports are growing and change the subject away from health care which is killing him. >> you make an interesting point, there's a whole big part of this financial community that is seeing gop politics potentially offended if you buy the news cycle and conservative economic policy not necessarily

so. a lot of moderate ceo and business round table folks are concerned about brinksmanship over the debt ceiling and tea party control. we talked about that in the primaries and some of them thinks you mentioned affordable care act can be a good thing. is there a way for the president to sort of remind the same wing of the business community that he's better than some of the alternatives today? >> i think some of them know that, which is why they gave money to his campaign. the problem is that a lot of those same corporate ceos are not too popular with the american people, whether it's the populist wing of the party. obama has a delicate line to walk there between ingrashiating himself and being seen as too close to them. >> complaining and obstructing do not make for an agenda. they have become the part of no, no to creating an alternative

agenda. what ideas can they run on in 2014? >> traditionally a mid-year election, being opposed to the president can be enough. it worked well for the democrats against bush in the iraq war congressional election. so you know, it's really -- i think it will take until the presidential election year -- >> let me, we may have the president out here any moment but on the 2006 example -- we are looking at the president taking stage here we're going to listen in. >> thank you so much. thank you. well, it is wonderful to be here and i always look forward to an opportunity to speak to some of our top businesses across the country who are hiring people and investing in america, making the economy run. and many of you i've had the chance to interact with before. often times when i do something like this i want to spend more

time answering questions and having a conversation than giving any formal remarks. let me just provide a little bit of introduction. over the last couple of months, most of the oxygen has been consumed with two things, one the government shutdown and the possibility of default that was ultimately resolved. and the second has been the rollout of the affordable care act and the fact that my website is not working the way it's supposed to. and its entirely that those have been issue of great concern. the impact of the shutdown and the threat of default, not only did significant damage to the economy at a time when we didn't need self-inflicted wounds but it also spoke to larger problems we've seen here in washington. and the sense of dysfunction and

the seeming incapacity of both parties in congress to work together, to advance an agenda that's going to help us grow. with respect to affordable care act, i think people are legitimately concerned because we have a major problem with health care in this country. 41 million people without health insurance, a lot of people underinsured. and once again, how we fix a health care system that's been broken for too many people for too long i think ends up speaking to how much confidence we have in government and whether we still have the capacity collectively to bring about changes that are going to be good for our economy and good for our businesses and good for the american people. i do want to say though that beyond the headlines, we have made real progress in the economy. sometimes that hasn't gotten enough attention.

some of the tough decisions that we made early on have paid off. decisions that helped us not only recover from a crisis but begin to lay a stronger foundation for future growth. we refocused on manufacturing exports and today our businesses sell more goods and services made in america than ever before around the world. after a decade of shedding jobs, our manufacturing sector added about half a million new jobs. and it's led by an american auto industry that has come roaring back after decades of decline. we decided to reverse our dependance on foreign oil. today we generate more renewable energy than ever before. and more natural gas than anybody in the world. for the first time in nearly 20 years, american now produces our own oil than we buy from other countries. when i took office, we invested

a fraction of what other companies did in wireless infrastructure and today it's up nearly 50%. helping companies unleash jobs and innovation and booming economy that created more than 500,000 jobs. when i took office, only 5% of the world's smartphones ran on american operating systems. today more than 80% do. and it's not just in the high tech economy that we're seeing progress. for example, american farmers are on pace to have one of their best years in decades and they have consistently been able to export more, make more profits and help restore rural economies than when we came into office. and yes, we decided to take on a broken health care system. and even though the rollout of the new health care marketplace has been rough to say the least, about half a million americans are now poised to gain health care coverage beginning january 1st after only a month of

signup. we also have seen health care costs growing at the slowest rate in 50 years, employer based health costs growing one third of the rate a decade ago. that has impact on your bottom line. after years a trillion dollar deficits, we wound down two wars and began to change a tax code that was too skewed towards the wealthiest among us at the expense of middle class and since i took office, we have now cut or deficits by more than half. add it all up and businesses like yours created 7.4 million jobs and gone farther and recovered faster than most other advanced nations. in a lot of ways, america is poised for a break-up. we are in a good position to compete around the world in the

21st century. the question is, will we realize that potential and that means we have more work to do. our stock markets and corporate profit are soaring but we've got to make sure that this remains a country where everyone who works hard can get ahead and that means we've still got to address long term unemployment and still have to address stagnant wages and stagnant incomes. and frankly, we've got to stop governing by crisis here in this town because if it weren't for washington's dysfunction, all of us agree we would be a lot further along. the shutdown and threat of default harmed our jobs market and cost our economy $5 billion and economists predict it will slow gdp growth this quarter and it didn't need to happen. we should not be injuring ourselves every three months but investing in ourselves. in a sensible world that starts with a budget that cuts where we don't need. closes wasteful loopholes and

helps us afford to invest in the things we know will help businesses like yours and economy as a whole. education, infrastructure, basic research and development. we would have a grand bargain for middle class jobs that combines tax reform with a financing mechanism that let's us create jobs, rebuilding infrastructure that businesses depend on but haven't gotten as much takeup. we have the opportunity for bipartisan authority to negotiate the best trade deals possible. so businesses and workers can take advantage of new markets that are opening up around the world. we haven't seen the kind of take-up from the other side we would like to see so far. we've got the opportunity to fix a broken immigration system that's strengthens our economy and national security. the good news here the senate has already passed a bipartisan bill that economists say would lure our economy by $1.4 trillion and shrink deficits nearly a trillion dollars over

the next decade. you wouldn't turn down a deal that good and i'm hoping they won't either. and we need to be going all out to prepare kids and workers for the demands of 21st century economy. i propose giving every child an early start at success by making high quality preschool available to every 4-year-old in america. we know you get more bang for the buck when it comes to early childhood education than just about anything else. you've got great examples around the country, often times in red states doing just that, we need to make that same investment. working to bring down the cost of a college degree so more young people can get a higher education and one thing i'm really excited about, the idea of redesigning our high schools to make sure more young people get hands on training and develop the skills they need, particularly, math, science and

engineering, that businesses are looking for. and in fact, today we're announcing a competitive grant program that will encourage more high schools to partner with colleges and local businesses to better prepare our kids for college or a career. and in december, i'll be bringing together college presidents and other leaders to figure outweighs to help more low income students attend college. just to sum up, my basic message is this. we know what the challenges are. we know what the solutions are. some of them are tough but what's holding us back is not a lack of good policy ideas or even what used to be considered good bipartisan policy ideas. we just have to break through the stubborn cycle of crisis politics and start working together. more obstruction, more brinksmanship won't help anybody. it doesn't help folks politically. my understanding is nobody in this town is doing particularly well at the moment when it comes

to opinions of american people. but it certainly doesn't help anybody economically. on many of the issues you and i would agree and i want you to know i'm rooting for your success. i look forward to making sure that we are able in the remaining three years i'm president to work together to not only improve the business climate, but also improve the prospects for americans all across the country who have been treading water, feel like they are losing ground, are anxious about the future and children's futures, but i think are still hopeful and still the fundamental american optimism, if they see leadership working across the board on their behalf, that i'm confident we could make enormous progress. so, with that. >> you've been listening to president obama speaking at the wall street journal ceo council. we begin though with more political news. our latest installment of who

canada, rob ford said he is done drinking, no word on the crack. no plans of resigning besides city council stripping his powers. he also went to strip clubs, i digress again. here he is with matt lauer. >> they said, do you use crack cocaine? no i don't use crack cocaine. no. have i tried crack cocaine? yes -- >> that's a game of semantics. >> i could barely remember it, i was very ee neeb bree ated. >> all i can say actions speak louder than words. >> from crack mayor to crank mayor, san diego is holding a special election today to replace bob fillener who resigned after being accused of sexu sexu sexual harassment. >> weather is making news once again, several hundred miles from bermuda, subtropical storm

melissa is strengthening. large swells could affect puerto rico and virgin islands. >> breaking details on creigh deeds, he is recovering after being stabbed in the head and torso. his condition has been upgraded to fair. his son is dead, police believe he shot himself after attacking his father. he was reportedly just released from a mental hospital yesterday. cops don't believe there are any other suspects. >> thanks for that report. george zimmerman was back in a florida courtroom this afternoon following a dpom dispute with his girlfriend. kerry sanders joins us from sanfo sanford, what is the latest? >> remains in jail here and spent the night after being arrested by deputies. they went to the house where he and his girlfriend apparently

got in a altercation. samantha scheibe described a dispute, that there was a gun involved and then interestingly, after she left the house, her boyfriend, george zimmerman, then dialed 911. here's a portion of each of their phone calls. >> he just broke night glass table and broke my sunglasses and you put your gun in my freaking face and told me to get the [ bleep ] out. this is not your house. get out of here. >> the police is already there and so why are you calling? what happened? >> i just want everyone to know the truth. >> reporter: george zimmerman said that he did not break that table. he did not point a gun at his girlfriend. but when the authorities investigated, they did take him into custody. he's now charged with among other things, aggravated assault with a weapon. he was taken and booked in here into the jail at his first appearance today here, the judge set a $9,000 bond.

he could leave today. he could leave tomorrow. one of conditions of his release is they are going to put an ankle monitor on him so that could delay the process even if he's able to work with a bail bondsman to raise the money to get out of jail here today. the judge said he has to have no contact with his girlfriend, samantha scheibe and not have a weapon or any ammunition. the main sense here is they are concerned that somehow there could be further problems between these two and the state attorney revealed during the hearing at the time there was an unreported incident a week ago where he allegedly tried to strangle his girlfriend. >> ari? >> thank you for that report. >> if you are in need of a little inspiration this afternoon, we've got you covered. they are going to join us with some truth to power from unexpected sources. huh...fifteen minutes

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he said, that's all right, i don't eat colored people, bring me a whole fried chicken. our next guest, henry lewis gates junior, he wrote the forward, in the guest spot, with reesepowers. i flip through this book and see so much of black history reflected and this has to mention your series on pbs, the african-american, many rivers to cross airs tonight on pbs, a full flavor of black history we get out of aretha powers' book. when we look at the flow of black history, i get the sense we had a long hard road but we have this wealth that is in resilience. >> absolutely, tour'e, you forgot the most important person in the book, that's you. >> stop, stop. >> i'm shocked that wasn't in the lead to be honest.

>> all right. >> i have to say something very important. i think there have been three or four great intellectual accomplishments in terms of reference works in the history of our people, one would be the edit of the encyclopedia africana and the national biography and edit of bartlet's black quotations, because i didn't have anything to do with it. this woman did it. it took her seven years and we should thank the lord for her great accomplishment and her imagination and her vision. tour'e, this is something i dreamed about doing one day or hoping it would be done. when they approached me and asked me to write the introduction, it was a great honor. brilliantly done. i would have left you out, but other than that, it's fine. >> to that point of editing this book and selecting from all of the incredible quotations, you have quotes from a whole range of thinkers of poeters and

cultural i ccons and i have grabbed by one, 50 cent. how did you choose for the quotes to be in the book? >> he was here with people, like ida b. wells and a whole range of the black experience i wanted to represent. whatever one might feel, about go shorty it's your birthday it's now a greeting card. >> there's been ongoing debate about whether or not we should do away with the "n" word all together. you use the word freely throughout the book. why? >> that's an excellent question. i tried keeping track of how many times the "n" word appears throughout the book i decided not to because it is a word that

exists, and the racial epithet, the nuclear bomb of racial epithets and because of that it has weight and power. it's found in quotations artist. and would be negligent on my part not to include quotations that refer to it. >> i agree with that. >> let's take a listen to another important line -- set of lines in the book. >> be patient and wait. we must not be patient. we do not want our freedom gradually. but we want to be free now. we are tired. we are tired of being beaten by policemen. we're tired of seeing our people locked up in jail over and over again, and then you holler be patient. how long can we be patient? we want our freedom, and we want it now. >> that young man's face looks familiar to viewers, it is, of course, john lewis, speaking at the 1963 march, speaking about

the difference between the urgency of social activism and too much patience. that's one of many lines that has crossed over that is, of course, a part of black american history and a part of all-american history. skip, i wanted to get your thoughts on where this book fits into the larger effort to diversify our history, diversify the cannon. because when we look at people who have been marginalized out of it, women, minorities and others, one argument is let's make sure we have dedicated programs, discussions, and entire, you know, university programs for that. and another is, well, we've got to diversify bartlett's it is, right, the original book. some of that is spoken in the introduction. what do you think about that ongoing debate? >> i think it's a good question, toure. i think we have to do both things. for example, ten colleagues and i edited the northern anthology of african-american literature, which has been a best-seller and

established the cannon, so you could teach black lit courses. the effect of that also was to integrate the anthology of american literature to include more black content and we have to do both things. what reetha has done is give us a history of the thought, the finest, most clearly and most beautifully articulated thought of the african-american people from the slavery times, very beginning, until today. and so it's an easy compendium. i think every black family should have this on their coffee table. i keep it on my coffee table while watching football. i leaf through it. >> you mean soccer? you sit around and watch football? you watch soccer, right, from europe, right? we know how erudite you are. congregation congratulations on the book. the word of the year. and the winner is, do you guys know? it's selfie. we have all taken them.

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at least one canton, ohio walmart is getting in the holiday spirit by posting these signs in the worker area of their store. please donate food items here, so associates in need can enjoy thanksgiving dinner. that's right. apparently walmart is well aware that many of their associates do

not make enough money to buy thanksgiving dinner on their own, and what's their solution? lord knows, it's not to pay those associates more. the average walmart employee makes only $8.81 per hour, which works out to be about $17,000 per year in take-home pay for a full-time employee, well below the federal poverty line of $23,000. their solution is certainly not to allow their workers to organize so that maybe they could have a voice in telling management what sort of working conditions, would help their families and help the productivity of the stores. and despite the fact that walmart is not only a seller of crappy chinese-made goods but also the largest grocery store in the country, there's no way that they would provide their associates with thanksgiving trimmings for turkey day. let's not be crazy. no, their solution is to ask their poorly paid associates to give food to other poorly paid associates. well, i guess that's better than nothing. spokesman for walmart says the food drive shows how employees care about each other.

it's for associates who have had some hardships come up, maybe their spouse lost a job. this is a culture of rallying around. unfortunately, given the wages walmart pays, it would not take an extreme hardship for workers to need help around the holidays. in america, we spend a lot of time focused on the supposed ills of the safety net, which paul ryan famously said lulls able-bodied people to sleep. the truth is, much of our safety net serves as corporate welfare, allowing companies like walmart to avoid paying their employees enough to actually live and eat on. in fact, workers at a single walmart super center rely on about $1 million in public benefits per year, just to be able to live. these are hard-working people. they are doing all they can to support their families, but can't do it, because workers have no voice and no value in this country. they're not treated as people with value.

>> corporations are people, my friend. we can raise taxes -- of course, they are. >> hmmm. think it's become pretty clear in this country that corporations like walmart, despite their desire to be treated as people, aren't about to act with humanity. while actual persons try to live by the maxim to whom much is given, much is expected, corporate persons apparently feel no such come punk shun. so if we care about workers at walmart being able to afford a dinner or regular healthy meals for their families, we've got to do two things. give workers a voice and demand an increase in the minimum wage. after all, they may not have the hundreds of millions of dollars it takes to buy an election at today's prices, but like corporations, walmart employees are people too. all right. that does it for "the cycle he will." martin bashir. >> it is tuesday, november the 19th, and mama told me, there would be days like this. ♪

>> okay. we ready? >> morning, everyone. >> man! >> rough couple weeks for president barack obama. >> obama care is wrong, it's a failu failure. >> we hate to say we told you so. we all look like geniuses now. >> today the president makes his case to a room of ceos. >> he's not backing down. i don't think he can back down. >> the republicans have a one-note agenda. >> trying to protect the american people from this awful law. >> that's all they want to focus on right now. >> the american people are very, very worried. moms and dads are worried, and they're worried -- >> give congress a gigantic paper bag, breathe n breathe out. >> these next two months are perhaps the president's last shot at getting things right. >> this weekend, he was booed out of basketball games. >> give some perspective. this is how a crowd greeted the crack-smoking train wreck of a mayor in toronto on saturday. ♪